The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 3J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... acted with any degree of form by the monks . This was certainly the case in the English monasteries . I have already mentioned the play of Saint Catharine , performed at Dunstable Abbey , by the novices in the eleventh century , under ...
... acted with any degree of form by the monks . This was certainly the case in the English monasteries . I have already mentioned the play of Saint Catharine , performed at Dunstable Abbey , by the novices in the eleventh century , under ...
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... acted on Corpus Christi day , & " Except , that on the first Sunday of the magnificent mar- riage of King James of Scotland with the princess Margaret of England , daughter of Henry the Seventh , celebrated at Edin- burgh with high ...
... acted on Corpus Christi day , & " Except , that on the first Sunday of the magnificent mar- riage of King James of Scotland with the princess Margaret of England , daughter of Henry the Seventh , celebrated at Edin- burgh with high ...
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... acted . " 3 The writer of this book appears to have been born in the same year with our great poet ( 1564 ) . Supposing him to have been seven or eight years old when he saw this interlude , the exhibition must have been in 1571 or 1572 ...
... acted . " 3 The writer of this book appears to have been born in the same year with our great poet ( 1564 ) . Supposing him to have been seven or eight years old when he saw this interlude , the exhibition must have been in 1571 or 1572 ...
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... acted at Christ's College , Cambridge , in 1566 , is pointed out by the inge- nious writer of the tract entitled Historia Histrio- nica , as the first piece " that looks like a regular comedy ; " that is , the first play that was ...
... acted at Christ's College , Cambridge , in 1566 , is pointed out by the inge- nious writer of the tract entitled Historia Histrio- nica , as the first piece " that looks like a regular comedy ; " that is , the first play that was ...
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... acted plays on profane subjects in the chapel - royal . ' In 1574 she granted a licence to James Burbage , probably the father of the cele- brated tragedian , and four others , servants to the Earl of Leicester , to exhibit all kinds of ...
... acted plays on profane subjects in the chapel - royal . ' In 1574 she granted a licence to James Burbage , probably the father of the cele- brated tragedian , and four others , servants to the Earl of Leicester , to exhibit all kinds of ...
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